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despolio

despolio, to rob, plunder, despoil

dē-spŏlĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (also
  • dep.: quos despoliatur, with depopulatur, Afran. ap. Non. 480, 13), to rob, plunder, despoil (rare, but good prose).—Constr., aliquem (aliquid) aliqua re: ne se armis despoliaret, * Caes. B. G. 2, 31, 4: me despoliat, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 53 (805); cf. id. Cas. 4, 4, 4 (817); Ter. And. 816; Cic. Att. 7, 9: Dianae templum, id. Verr. 2, 3, 21 fin.: digitos suos, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 57 (1047): despoliari triumpho, Liv. 45, 36.

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